In March, 1944, Germany invades Hungary and launches a mass deportation of the country’s Jewish population. In the tranquil village of Sighet, Solomon Markowitz, a larger-than-life Jewish landowner, philanderer and absentee  father of five, crafts the perfect plan: to take his wife Leah and their five  children into an abandoned gold mine he’d prepared for them deep in the Carpathian woods and hide there until the war’s end.